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TIL that Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) was a Japanese painter known for surreal works showing boys and men fused with machines and urban life. His art explores isolation, consumerism, work stress, and the monotony of modern city living.

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69QlW TIL that the song, Country Roads, by John Denver, a song adored by many West Virginia fans was actually written about Maryland.
GAVoG TIL a Chinese actor was cancelled in 2021 after the background of one of his photos taken in 2018 was identified as the office area of the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Japanese war criminals
M7yOV TIL Kevin’s irresponsible mother , who abandoned him so she could hang out with a polka band , had a side job singing a duets with Oingo Boingo
wo0OJ TIL of an experiment, in which white test subjects participated in the psychological ‘rubber hand illusion’ experiment but were given black arms instead of white ones. Doing this measurably reduced their implicit racial bias.
VMdVG TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.